Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas
655 Marketplace Plaza
970-870-8222
www.metrotheatres.com

“What to Expect When You’re Expecting” PG-13
4:40 and 7:30 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2, 4:40 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

“Dark Shadows” PG-13
5:10 and 7:50 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2:30, 5:10 and 7:50 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

“The Raven” R
8 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2:10 and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

“The Avengers” PG-13
5, 7 (3-D) and 8:15 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
1:45, 3:45 (3-D), 5, 7 (3-D) and 8:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Midnight on May 24

“The Five-Year Engagement” R
7:40 p.m. daily

“The Hunger Games” PG-13
4:50 p.m. daily

“Men In Black 3” PG-13
Midnight on May 24 in 2-D and 3-D

“Chimpanzee” G
5:20 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
12:50 and 2:50 p.m. Saturday
2:20 and 5:20 p.m. Sunday

Chief Plaza Theater
813 Lincoln Ave.
970-879-0181
www.carmike.com

“Bully” PG-13
2:55, 5:25 and 8:10 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
12:10, 2:55, 5:25 and 8:10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

“The Lucky One” PG-13
2:50, 5:20 and 8:05 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
12:05, 2:50, 5:20 and 8:05 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

“Battleship” PG-13
2:45, 5:30 and 8:15 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
Noon, 2:45, 5:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

“The Dictator” R
3, 5:15 and 8 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
12:15, 3, 5:15 and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

“Battleship”
Action, PG-13, 130 minutes
Alien spacecraft splash down in the Pacific, where war games are being conducted by Allied navies, leading to a battle where a whole lot of stuff is blowed up real good. Similar to the Transformers movies but more entertaining because of a better plot, good characters and a kind of inspiring third act. As summer action entertainment goes, not at all bad.
Rating: Two and a half stars

“What to Expect When You’re Expecting”
Comedy, PG-13, 109 minutes
An all-star comedy about five couples in search of pregnancy. They’re so much in synch that three deliveries and an adoption occur on the same day. The actors are likable, the movie is cheerful, but there’s too much story, and I grew weary of the round-robin as all the stories were kept updated. With Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Brooklyn Decker, Matthew Morrison, Chace Crawford, Chris Rock, Dennis Quaid and others in a plot that risks gridlock.
Rating: Two and a half stars

“The Dictator”
Comedy, R, 85 minutes
Sacha Baron Cohen establishes a claim to be the best comic filmmaker now working. “The Dictator” is funny, obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar and crude, and also merciless political satire. With Ben Kingsley, John C. Reilly, Anna Faris and a great cameo from Megan Fox, who shows up for sex but draws the line at an all-night cuddle.
Rating: Three stars

"Dark Shadows"
Comedy, PG-13, 112 minutes
Tim Burton’s film is all dressed up with nowhere to go, an elegant production without a central drive. There are wonderful things in the film, but they aren’t what’s important. It’s as if Burton directed at arm’s length, unwilling to find juice in the story. Johnny Depp is flawless as the vampire Barnabas, transported from the 18th century to 1972, but the other characters get lost in arch mannerisms. As always with Burton, the visual style is wonderful.
Rating: Two and a half stars

"The Raven"
Thriller, R, 111 minutes
John Cusack stars as Edgar Allan Poe in an overwrought serial killer melodrama having only the most tenuous connection to the great writer. Starting with one fact, that Poe was found wandering delirious in Baltimore in 1849, the movie concocts a plot that depends much more on sensational acting than on suspense or atmosphere. With Luke Evans as a detective who teams up with Poe.
Rating: Two stars

"Bully"
Documentary, PG-13, 106 minutes
An interesting and often touching documentary about several victims of bullying, two driven to suicide, and the parents and teachers who often had no idea what was going on. But it is episodic, and we’re not sure what we learn from these personal stories except that they are sad.
Rating: Three stars

"The Avengers"
Action-adventure, PG-13, 142 minutes
A threat to Earth from the smirking Loki, resentful adoptive brother of the Norse god Thor, causes Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to assemble all of the Avengers: Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). The result is sort of like an All Star Game for Marvel superheroes. Exactly what you’d expect, although more of the same. Gets the job done.
Rating: Three stars

"The Lucky One"
Romance, PG-13, 101 minutes
Shameless love story about a Marine (Zac Efron) whose life is saved by a photo he finds in Iraq. He tracks down the girl in the picture (Taylor Schilling) and finds her running a dog kennel in impossibly beautiful Louisiana hills. Her nana (Blythe Danner) spots Efron as husband material, but her ex-husband (Jay R. Ferguson) hangs around getting drunk and acting mean. A smooth, pretty adaptation of a smooth Nicholas Sparks novel, if incredible coincidences and romantic cliches don’t bother you; it’s mid-level Sparks, done well.
Rating: Two and a half stars

“The Hunger Games”
Sci-fi action, PG-13, 142 minutes
Jennifer Lawrence is strong and convincing as the lead in a science-fiction parable set in a future where poor young people are forced into deadly combat for the entertainment of the rich. The earth-toned naturalism of forest hunting scenes is in odd contrast to the bizarre oddballs at the top in this society. An effective entertainment, but too long, and it avoids questions about this society’s morality.
Rating: Three stars

— Roger Ebert

"The Five-Year Engagement"
Romantic comedy, R, 124 minutes
Like a delectable meal that goes on too long, “The Five-Year Engagement” continues past gratification to overindulgence. It’s a very good movie. If a tough editor trimmed it from 124 minutes to 90, it would be wonderful. Judd Apatow’s latest production, starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, concerns two imperfect, exasperating, well-intentioned ordinary people who trip themselves up on a daily basis. They’re a lot like what most of us see in the mirror, only with better dialogue. There’s humor in every beat of the story, and the laughs come from the characters’ humanity, not camp comedy. “Engagement” is chockablock with inventive humor and sharply drawn secondary characters, yet it feels as if stretches are unfolding in real time.
Rating: Three stars

— Colin Covert, MCT

"Chimpanzee"
Comedy, G, 78 minutes
Partway through the four-year production of the Disneynature documentary “Chimpanzee,” an inconvenient thing happened: Isha, the mother of the film’s cuddly star, Oscar, was killed. But as the film’s executive producer, Don Hahn, noted at a recent screening: “Well, it’s a tradition in Disney, so let’s keep going.” A good thing they did. Directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, both documentary veterans, end up with a story far more dramatic than just a day-to-day chronicle of life among the chimps of Africa’s Tai Forest. As for the movie’s unexpected ending, it’s so perfect it could have been borrowed from one of Hahn’s other Disney productions, like “The Lion King” or “Beauty and the Beast.” Walt Disney himself couldn’t have scripted “Chimpanzee” any better.
Rating: Three stars

— Rafer Guzman, MCT